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Medical Scandal (22nd Sep 12 at 8:22am UTC)
The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal
The doctors prescribing the drugs don't know they don't do what they're meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they're not telling.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre
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Re: Medical Scandal (22nd Sep 12 at 10:58pm UTC)
Killer cures: Why the drugs really can make you worse

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/killer-cures-why-the-drugs-really-can-1333744
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Re: Medical Scandal (24th Sep 12 at 10:04pm UTC)
With this wonder drug, you just pop till you drop

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9562868/With-this-wonder-drug-you-just-pop-till-you-drop.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (28th Sep 12 at 9:56pm UTC)
Channel 4 drugs programme criticised by Government's chief adviser

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9571107/Channel-4-drugs-programme-criticised-by-Governments-chief-adviser.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (3rd Oct 12 at 10:14pm UTC)
Australian health authorities have expressed regret over a bungled Aboriginal health campaign featuring a poster of the female body filled with basic errors, including an extra pancreas and the ovaries labelled as the kidneys.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/9583598/Australian-health-authorities-under-fire-over-Aboriginal-health-campaign.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (4th Oct 12 at 10:11pm UTC)
18,000 websites selling illegal medicines closed down

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/18000-websites-selling-illegal-medicines-closed-down-8197489.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (11th Oct 12 at 11:38pm UTC)
US meningitis deaths: pharmacy firms plan voluntary shutdown

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/us-meningitis-deaths-pharmacy-firms-plan-voluntary-shutdown-8206051.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (12th Oct 12 at 9:55am UTC)
Meningitis outbreak: US health authorities say 14,000 at risk
Senator calls for federal investigation as Florida and Indiana report new deaths and and number of infections rises to 170

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/11/meningitis-us-health-authorities-14-000-risk
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Re: Medical Scandal (14th Oct 12 at 11:12am UTC)
US fungal meningitis toll rises to 15 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19938899
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Re: Medical Scandal (15th Oct 12 at 10:55pm UTC)
Are expensive cough mixtures a waste of time? Which? casts doubt on health claims

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2217777/Cough-medicine-Are-expensive-cough-mixtures-waste-time-Which-casts-doubt-health-claims.html#ixzz29PYYpbJr

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Re: Medical Scandal (17th Oct 12 at 9:47pm UTC)
A US pharmacy was searched by criminal investigators on Tuesday after drugs made at the store were linked to a growing meningitis outbreak that has left 16 dead

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9613875/Pharmacy-raided-over-drug-link-to-growing-US-meningitis-outbreak.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (21st Oct 12 at 9:57am UTC)
Meningitis outbreak death toll rises to 23 as reported cases also increase
Nearly two-dozen have died as disease is traced back to fungal contaminate at New England compounding company

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/20/meningitis-outbreak-toll-rises-23
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Re: Medical Scandal (29th Oct 12 at 9:42am UTC)
Cancer fight stalls amid push for profits, doctors say
Newer drugs fall short of hopes and cost too much, say experts who pledge to improve care in poorer countries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/28/targeted-cancer-drugs-expectations-experts
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Re: Medical Scandal (29th Oct 12 at 11:30pm UTC)
Hundreds of patients had instruments left inside them or surgery on the wrong part of the body as the extent of so-called 'never events' in the NHS was revealed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9640413/Hundreds-of-patients-subjected-to-NHS-blunders-that-should-never-happen.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (1st Nov 12 at 11:53pm UTC)
Genetic profiteering: scandal of firm 'hiding vital breast cancer data'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/genetic-profiteering-scandal-of-firm-hiding-vital-breast-cancer-data-8270020.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (10th Nov 12 at 10:36pm UTC)
How can Viagra maker Pfizer pay no UK tax?
Top executives from leading global firms face questions over their tax affairs by MPs on Monday

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-can-viagra-maker-pfizer-pay-no-uk-tax-8301414.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (30th Nov 12 at 11:42am UTC)
Cancer patients warned against clinics offering unproven treatments
Warning follows Guardian coverage of patients travelling as far as Mexico and China for ineffective treatment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/30/cancer-patients-clinics-unproven-treatment
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Re: Medical Scandal (5th Dec 12 at 10:27pm UTC)
Drug firms bought East German patients to use as human guinea pigs

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/drug-firms-bought-east-german-patients-to-use-as-human-guinea-pigs-8386847.html
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Re: Medical Scandal (12th Dec 12 at 11:21pm UTC)
Bogus doctor told to pay back £270,000 he 'earned' over 10 years while pretending to be a GP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2246541/Bogus-doctor-told-pay-270-000-earned-10-years-pretending-GP.html#ixzz2EsnPFFw4

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Re: Medical Scandal (23rd Dec 12 at 12:20pm UTC)
Pharmacy linked to deadly meningitis outbreak files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
New England Compounding Center's filing shields company from creditors while it sets up compensation fund for victims

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/22/pharmacy-meningitis-outbreak-files-bankruptcy
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